When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

I was a high school throw-out.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.